Improvement in enamel-coated knife and fork handles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE S. RANsoM, 0F SOMERVILLE, MASSAOHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ENAMEL-COATED KNIFE AND FORK HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,743, dated January 29, 1878 application filed January 19, 1878;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE S. RANSOM, of Somerville, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new article of manufacture; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and clear description of the improvement, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it.

My improvement consists in applying to the metallic handles of table knives and forks an enamel coating, by means of the composition as described in the Letters Patent assigned to the American Enamel Company, of Providence, Rhode Island, Nos. 63,428, April 2, and 67,679, August 13, 1867. The composition of the enamel and the mode of applying it, being fully set forth in the above-named patents, need not be further described.

By means of this enamel I am enabled to them from the defects that are Soon apparent V in those things subjected to constant usage.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent The new manufacture herein describedknives and forks with metallic handles coated with the enamel herein specified, all substantially as set forth.

THEODORE S. RANSOM.

Witnesses:

LUTHER BRIGGS, CLARENCE E. SPRAGUE. 

